just watched tokyo drift and vin diesel showed up in a roadrunner...<---badass

[69daytonaQ5]

i always start to watch this movie but never end up finishing it..and today i saw the ending when vin deisel comes through with a BADASS roadrunner shitting on all the imports...just wondering if any of you guys caught that shit...it was hella cean

[TripleBlackGator]

Yeah I caught that too. When I saw it in the theater back in June of 2006! 

[jaak]

isn't that the car built by Steve Strope, the same guy that built the Petrol Charger?


Jason

[JMF]

I wonder if he tried to drift it around those narrow car parks spirals like they did with the ricemobiles

[Ryan]

i believe the car is called hammerhead, and steve built it. Its bad ass! procharged 451 strocker motor and I think it was fuel injected to. Horrible movie btw!

[IowaCharger69]

I think it was probably the best of the three, but more on topic, yes that RR is amazing.

[suntech]

The car is buildt by Steve Strope, and is called Hammer. it used to be a pro charged stroker in it, at app 770 hp,  but Steve told me that it was putted a hemi in it a while back.

[mally69]

 I can only wonder if they are going to end up smashing that one to like they did with all the other ones.     I sure hope not.

[Mike DC]

 
The silver RR was just a little cameo thing in F&F3.  It's probably not being used in the real F&F4.



But even if that silver RR is in the new movie and scheduled for a wreck, I guarantee you that they're still not gonna wad up the real one. 

Hollywood doesn't care much about killing cool cars, but they still DO care about wasting $100K or whatever that Strope RR is worth.  It would only take them about $15K to slam together a rollcaged bondo-bucket clone of it.

[gordo1968charger]

another call to hans and his cowboys

[IowaCharger69]

 
The silver RR was just a little cameo thing in F&F3.  It's probably not being used in the real F&F4.



But even if that silver RR is in the new movie and scheduled for a wreck, I guarantee you that they're still not gonna wad up the real one. 

Hollywood doesn't care much about killing cool cars, but they still DO care about wasting $100K or whatever that Strope RR is worth.  It would only take them about $15K to slam together a rollcaged bondo-bucket clone of it.

wait wait wait, wasn't it Hollywood that ruined a perfectly good Daytona to create the "rust bucket" in Joe Dirt???

[Drache]

 
The silver RR was just a little cameo thing in F&F3.  It's probably not being used in the real F&F4.



But even if that silver RR is in the new movie and scheduled for a wreck, I guarantee you that they're still not gonna wad up the real one. 

Hollywood doesn't care much about killing cool cars, but they still DO care about wasting $100K or whatever that Strope RR is worth.  It would only take them about $15K to slam together a rollcaged bondo-bucket clone of it.

wait wait wait, wasn't it Hollywood that ruined a perfectly good Daytona to create the "rust bucket" in Joe Dirt???

Not a real Daytona, XP29F9B103293 was the VIN if I remember correctly. It was a beautiful '69 Charger in Plum Crazy Purple! The original color can be seen in the door frames.

EDIT: http://www.californiaclassix.com/archive/69_Joe_Dirt_Daytona.html

[Mike DC]

Yeah, I heard that "Joe Dirt" deal was a half-finished Daytona (replica) project, and then the movie mullet-job was done with the owner's consent.  They were assuming on reversing it after filming, but the owner decided to leave it that way. 

[mally69]

Not to bump this topic a different direction but in the first fast and the furious that had the black 70 charger, was that a clone that they had smashed or the real deal??

[nakita7]

 
The silver RR was just a little cameo thing in F&F3.  It's probably not being used in the real F&F4.



But even if that silver RR is in the new movie and scheduled for a wreck, I guarantee you that they're still not gonna wad up the real one. 

Hollywood doesn't care much about killing cool cars, but they still DO care about wasting $100K or whatever that Strope RR is worth.  It would only take them about $15K to slam together a rollcaged bondo-bucket clone of it.

wait wait wait, wasn't it Hollywood that ruined a perfectly good Daytona to create the "rust bucket" in Joe Dirt???

Not a real Daytona, XP29F9B103293 was the VIN if I remember correctly. It was a beautiful '69 Charger in Plum Crazy Purple! The original color can be seen in the door frames.

EDIT: http://www.californiaclassix.com/archive/69_Joe_Dirt_Daytona.html

Plum Crazy wasn't the original colour, it's a 70 only colour.

I only saw Tokyo Drift once, but wasn't it a GTX at the end, thought I saw an emblem on the trunk(?). BTW, I thought it was a pretty good movie. All 3 were the same IMHO.

[Drache]

Plum Crazy wasn't the original colour, it's a 70 only colour.

I only saw Tokyo Drift once, but wasn't it a GTX at the end, thought I saw an emblem on the trunk(?). BTW, I thought it was a pretty good movie. All 3 were the same IMHO.

I said nothing about it being the original 1969 color, but the car was originally plum crazy purple before they made the outside look rusty. Second the car at the end of Tokyo Drift was a Roadrunner, on the trunk lip it said "Hammer" for the name of the car.

[66chargerkid]

yall are behind the times! Cmon I saw that movie about 20 times and the 70 rr in the end is the best part.

[Alain426]

and now vince, let's live one quarter mile at the time

[moparstuart]

thats stropes sema car the hammer

[gordo1968charger]

the best thing about the fast and furious films is that there is a mopar in every one.although 3 was the worst episode ever!

[myk]

Not to bump this topic a different direction but in the first fast and the furious that had the black 70 charger, was that a clone that they had smashed or the real deal??

You mean a "real" R/T?  They never made that car out to be anything other than a "blown" Charger.  Not a bad look for the car, I have to say...

[Mike DC]

I think they originally bought 4 Chargers for the first F&F movie.  They were a mish-mash of years & options.  I don't think there were any real R/Ts. 

You mostly saw one decent car that survived, a second stunt car that they flipped at the end, and a third shell that had been hacked up for being towed around with the actor inside. 

The money-shot of the engine (when the car was parked in the garage) was a different car entirely.  I think it was just borrowed for that shot and they never used otherwise.  The blowers on the driving cars were fake.  The car they flipped actually had a '60s 383 motor in it.

 


Now there are a couple of these cars being displayed at the Universal Studios theme parks.  They look like copies that were probably built after the movie. 

Universal was basically taken by surprise when that black '70 Charger became THE iconic car from the whole F&F movie franchise.  They really hadn't put so much focus & effort on it at the time the first movie was being made.  (It wasn't like the 2005 "Dukes of Hazzard" remake, where Warner Bros built around 15 matching driveable GLs and kept them carefully stored & well-documented.)

 

[mally69]

What I meant was, was that 70 charger they smashed an actual charger or a dummy or replica made to look like a 70 charger.

[Mike DC]

Yeah, it actually was a '70 Charger.  There's no other car that could be substituted that would look similar enough. 

Miniature shots or computer stuff . . . that's all way too expensive compared to a simple car wreck. 



The fact is that wreckable Chargers are still not that expensive in the big picture.  A Hollywood prop crew can still just go to Ebay and buy a bondo-bucket 383 Charger for less than the price of a new Toyota Camry. 

 

[gordo1968charger]

bqack to hans luetke again